CGS 2A Chapter Notes - Chapter Article Notes: Gender Studies, John Money, Sexual Identity
7 Aug 2018
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CGS 2A – Article Notes – Sex & Gender & Ain’t I a Woman? & Y’all Better Quiet Down
Sex
• Binary gender difference
• Sexual identity
• Sex as male/female 14th century
• Plural use 16th century
• 19th century third sex
• Sexuality 19th century
• Late 19th century sexologists controlling discourse around sex
• Heterosexual matrix: sex and gender seen as linked
• Sex today understood intersectionally
• "…the social and cultural meanings of 'sex' vary over time and place"
• What counts as sex?
• Different disciplines viewing sex and its complications and intersections differently
• Idea that sex is key to identity formation and psychological development mid-20th century
• Late-20th century attempt to separate sex and gender
• New movement to separate sexuality from other social justice movements
Gender
• Gender as performativity
• Gender as a term invented by John Money 1955 to distinguish sex from social roles
• Different disciplines understanding and questioning gender differently
• Gender intersects with other factors like race
• "…gender is understood as a marker of social difference, a bodily performance of normativity and
the challenges made to"
• Gender sorting people into categories in order to give them specific attributes
• Do away with gender?
• Development of gender studies programs out of women's studies programs
• Gender studies as interdisciplinary project
Ain't I a Woman?
• (1) 1851 Women's Convention in Ohio
• Speech by Sojourner Truth
• Women speaking about rights, and men being chivalrous, but black women are given no rights and
no chivalry
• A mother, even more than most women since had 13 children
• Intelligence has nothing to do with rights, everyone should have them
• Saying women can't have the same rights as men since Jesus was a man
o (2) "Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do
with Him"
